Podcasts Culture Virtual Vacation with Guidester The Thermal Baths of Budapest - Ahh, "The City of Spas"

The Thermal Baths of Budapest - Ahh, "The City of Spas"

Published: June 15, 2021, 3 p.m.

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This isn\'t your Hot Springs, Arkansas thermal bath area. Budapest is known as the city spas as it boasts more hot springs and medicinal baths than any capital city in the world!

[02:46] Bath Crazy "Budapesht" not Budapest.

[05:39] The Skinny on Thermal Baths

  • 120 Hot Springs
  • Romans and the Turks

[09:10] These are spas, but this isn\'t a Vic Tanney Health Spa - it\'s much much better!

  • Sparties
  • Rooftop Communal Hot Tub
  • Sz\\xe9chenyi Baths-18 pools, 15 of which are spring-fed thermal pools
  • Gell\\xe9rt Baths-most photographed spa in Hungary
  • Kir\\xe1ly Baths-officially the oldest, built in the second half of the 16th century
  • Rudas Baths-Turkish dome and octagonal pool

[16:11] How to bath in a culturally correct way

  • Shower, don\'t soak too long, shower, mineral baths, shower, sauna, shower, steam rooms, ice-cold pool, shower, do it again!

[22:15] Favorite Bath and the Cost $

[25:54] Family Friendly?

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